Reading lists

Today, my not-quite-annual cabin fever book list. Some of the books are new, a couple are old, but all are ones I enjoyed in the past year. 1. "Ghosting" by Jennie Erdal. For years Erdal worked for a famous, flamboyant London publisher and writer. What did she do? No one knew until in this astonishing,...

Are you one of those people who spends half your summer reading time reading summer reading lists? Good. Here's another one. Not the newest books around, these are merely a few books I've enjoyed since my 2002 summer list, which can be found at www.chicagotribune.com/schmich. Click on "reading...

If it's summer, it must be time for way too many summer reading lists. Here's mine. Some are new books, some are old. All are books I enjoyed discovering in the past year. 1. "Bel Canto" by Ann Patchett. In an unnamed South American country seeking business investment, a Japanese CEO is invited...

To: Eric "Beach Boy" Zorn From: Mary Schmich Here it is, another jewel of a summer day, and I'll bet you're not about to spend it lolling around with a book from some pundit's summer reading list. Right? So why do we persist with the fiction that summer is more of a reading season than, say, winter,...